Month: April 2010

Consolidating snapshots on VMware

There are times when for one reason or another a VMware datastore fills up, it's usually because of 'fault’ from a snaphost that doesn't account for the maximum size of the disk definition. On certain occasions when the datastore is completely full, we will not even be able to delete the snapshot, Not even being able to start the machine; So we're lost. A 'solution'’ is to extend the LUN, then expand the datastore and that's it, We retried what we wanted. Sometimes this is not possible, or is it directly a ñapa; what we have to do is consolidate our disks with their snapshots on a temporary LUN and finally return everything to its original datastore without snapshots or so on, Here's the solution.

Encrypting our hard drive with TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a great utility that will allow us to encrypt our hard drives, are local, Remote, USB, pen drive, Sd… Thanks to this utility we will avoid any loss of information through theft or loss of our laptop or external media, The decryption form being transparent and fast for our users. Uses different encryption algorithms (AES, Serpent and Twofish or a combination of them). We could even create a hidden partition with a hidden operating system in case we were forced to hand over our password, to give them false information! Can be used on Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista/7, Mac OS X, Linux… Of course it is free! (but not GNU). How to decrypt a password or a file can be used (Keyfile) whatever each one prefers, being able to decrypt the system disk when starting the computer or if we take the disk out and connect it to another computer, if you have TrueCrypt installed it would also be enough. The […]

Using ThinStation to Reuse Computers as a Thin Client

I've been working with this kind of wonder for a long time, It is an ideal for companies, Incredible savings of all kinds, The use of thin client philosophy in an organization. In this document we will see a free project that allows us to use any computer and convert it into a light computer or thinclient. There are other Linux distributions that are also based on this philosophy, And this seems to me to be the best, since it has a lot of packages that we can add to the posts and people who contribute.

Installing and configuring Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) is the Edge Protection Server for a Microsoft Exchange organization 2010, where we can manage all the blocking of incoming mail in order to reject unwanted emails either by the condition we configure (Anti SPAM), since it provides us with 5 Anti-Antivirus Definition Engines from Different Manufacturers! We will also avoid anti-malware, We have the possibility of extensive configuration from a console that is easy to manage, We also have an information area that is also quite cool. And manageability with PowerShell, of course! This server must be the one that collects external mail and sends it to our organization, the ideal is to mount it on the server that is in the DMZ totally isolated from our organization and on the server with the Edge Transport function.

Backup Exec Migration 12.5 a Backup Exec 2010

To all of us who use Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 We will have received an email some time ago indicating that we can now download Symantec Backup Exec 2010 and update our Backup Exec environment 12.5, to be able to perform this simple migration process, we will have to enter the Symantec website and obtain our licenses and installation software. In this document we look at the Backup Exec update process 12.5 a Backup Exec 2010 on a single server and with multiple remote servers with the Exec Backup Agent.